490 



WINTER FINCH. 



bays of Greenland : it generally breeds in the 

 northern parts, uniting into flocks : it has very 

 much the habit of a Lark, running on the ground, 

 and vibrating in the air like that bird : its nest is 

 composed of moss and grass, lined with feathers : 

 the female lays five or six eggs of a brownish slate, 

 variegated with a duller colour. In the autumn it 

 is supposed to migrate to America, being found 

 at Hudson's Bay, where it is called Tecumashish, 

 about November, among juniper trees. 



WINTER FINCH. 

 (Fringilla hyemalis.) 



Fr. Jusca nigro nebulosa, subtus alba, collo inferiore pectore 



lateribusque Jusco maculatis. 

 Fuscous Finch, clouded with black; beneath white; the lower 



part of the neck, breast, and sides, spotted with fuscous. 

 Fringilla hyemalis. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 922. — Lath. Lnd. Orn. 



1.446. 43. 



Winter Finch. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 254. — Lath, Gen, Syn. 3. 

 274. 37. 



This has the head, neck, and breast, light brown, 

 variegated with black : front of the neck, breast, 

 and sides, white, sprinkled with a few small 

 brown spots : wing-coverts and primaries brown, 

 margined with white : belly plain white. Inha- 

 bits New York in the winter. 



